Eugen von Benzino

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Eugen Ritter von Benzino
Eugen Benzino as a student

Peter Eugen Benzino , Knight of Benzino since 1908 , (born October 11, 1856 in Landstuhl , † November 28, 1915 in Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel ) was a Bavarian infantry general .

Life

family

Eugen was the eldest son of Carl Benzino and Paulina, née Hess. She was the daughter of the later ennobled painter Peter von Hess . His brothers were Hermann (* 1862) and Heinrich (* 1868). He was the grandfather of Vice Admiral Wolfgang Benzino and a relative of the merchant and art collector Joseph Benzino .

Benzino married Anna Bumiller in January 1882, with whom he had a child. He later married a second time. Another child was born from his marriage to Grace Champien.

Military career

After graduating from school in 1875, he joined the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" of the Bavarian Army as an officer aspirant and on October 1, 1875 became a member of the Fröhlich Pfalz . Benzino graduated from war school, from which he graduated with the title “particularly capable”. Following this, he was promoted to secondary lieutenant in 1877 and transferred to the infantry body regiment . From 1882 he was used there as a battalion adjutant.

In response to an interpellation from the Philistine because of his low participation in fraternity, he declared on October 26, 1886, that he was leaving Transrhenania .

From 1886 to 1889 Benzino graduated from the War Academy , which gave him the qualification for the general staff, the higher adjutantage and the subject (tactics, war history, military geography, military drawing). Subsequently, Benezino was transferred back to the Infantry Body Regiment as Prime Lieutenant Adjutant of the 2nd Infantry Brigade , where he was promoted to captain two years later . As such, Benzino was briefly company commander in 1893 , only to be used in the same function in the infantry body regiment. In 1894 he was transferred to the Central Office of the General Staff and in 1896 to the General Staff of the 1st Division . The following year he became a major and in 1898 he was assigned to the Great General Staff in Berlin . In 1900 Benzino returned to the troop service, took over a battalion in the infantry body regiment and in 1902 was promoted to the regimental staff as a lieutenant colonel .

Promoted to colonel in 1904 , Benzino also became the commander of the 11th Infantry Regiment "von der Tann" in Regensburg . In 1906 he became Chief of Staff of the III. Army Corps in Nuremberg . Since 1907 Major General and Commander of the Federal Fortress Ulm , in 1908 he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and the associated personal nobility .

Since 1908 commander of the 10th Infantry Brigade , he was promoted to lieutenant general with the title of excellence on May 4, 1910 and appointed commander of the 1st division in Munich. In 1913 Benzino was put up for disposal with the character of general of the infantry .

After the beginning of World War I, Benzino was reactivated and appointed commander of the replacement division . The large association fought on the western front in the Vosges in 1914/15 . Benzino died in November 1915 as a result of pneumonia , which he contracted while inspecting the front line of his division.

By unanimous decision of the Corps Transrhenania Munich on July 19, 1924, he was added to the list of deceased Corps brothers.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 116 , 25
  2. ^ Obituary in the Corps newspaper of the Transrhenania. No. 11. 2nd year of June 1931.
  3. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 405.
  4. ^ Military weekly paper . ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1908, Volume 93, Part 1, p. 807. Excerpt from the source ; Identical information in the Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities. (see under literature)
  5. ^ Obituary in the Corps newspaper of the Transrhenania. No. 11, 2nd year, June 1931.
personal data
SURNAME Benzino, Eugen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benzino, Peter Eugen Ritter von; Benzino, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Landstuhl
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1915
Place of death Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel